ISHLT2024: Early Career Scientist Award Finalist Presentations

10 April to 13, 2024 | Various Sessions

Various Rooms, Prague Congress Centre
  • Annual Meeting
  • Early Career
  • Grants, Awards & Scholarships
  • ISHLT2024
  • Scientific Abstract Award
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This award aims to recognize excellence in research in the field of basic and translational science with the goal of encouraging non-clinicians in the early stages of their careers to submit their work for presentation at the ISHLT Annual meeting. Five finalists invited to present their abstract research at the Annual Meeting, and the registration fee will be waived for these finalists.

The winner will be announced after the Annual Meeting.

Award Finalists

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Alessia Giarraputo, MSc, PhD

Paris Institute for Transplantation and Organ Regeneration
Paris, France

Oral Session 02 | Wednesday, 10 April 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. CEST

Abstract Title: Short-Term Immuno-Molecular Landscape in 10-Gene Edited Pig-to-Human Heart Xenografts

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Mudassir Banday, PhD

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA USA

Oral Session 10 | Wednesday, 10 April 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. CEST

Abstract Title: Distinct Non-HLA Antibody Signatures Correlate with Endothelial Crossmatch Status and Lung Function Decline in Lung Transplant Recipients

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Julianna Buchwald, BS

RNA Therapeutics Institute, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Worcester, MA USA

Oral Session 19 | Thursday, 11 April 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. CEST

Abstract Title: Optimizing Hearts for Transplantation Using Small Interfering RNA-Based Therapies During Ex Vivo Machine Perfusion

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Chuanjie Niu

Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
Guangzhou, China

Oral Session 35 | Friday, 12 April 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. CEST

Abstract Title: Normothermic Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion with Exosomes from Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improves Graft Function in Donation After Circulatory Death Hearts via Pi3k/akt Pathway

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Isaac Alderete, BS

Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC USA

Oral Session 36 | Saturday, 13 April 8:00 – 9:15 a.m. CEST

Abstract Title: AAV Delivery of PD-L1 with Concomitant CTLA-4 Immunoglobulin Attenuates Acute Cellular Rejection in a Rat Lung Transplant Model